1170975 - @mozilla.org/gfx/printerenumerator;1 is undefined

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Printing: Setup, defect)

Description

[David Chow]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.3; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)

Steps to reproduce:

While I am trying to get the printer name list by the following codes, I got error from the console. However, the same code is working in windows and linux
<code>
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/gfx/printerenumerator;1"]
</code>


Actual results:

@mozilla.org/gfx/printerenumerator;1 is undefined


Expected results:

Should be able to get the list of printer name

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I don't think this interface is supported on mac. mconley you've been touching printing recently, do you know?

Comment 2

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

(In reply to Benjamin Smedberg  [:bsmedberg] from comment #1)
> I don't think this interface is supported on mac. mconley you've been
> touching printing recently, do you know?

Correct - there is no nsIPrinterEnumerator implementation for the OS X widget backend.

Comment 3

[David Chow]

So, there is no alternative solution for getting the printer name list?